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First up, we are all healthy in my family.
My kid, will be 4 on Christmas, knew it is his friend's birthday in play school today. He asked for a piece of paper and pencil. He scribbled something on it and said I made a birthday card for my friend and I will give it to him in school. I told his teacher and she said, his friend is not coming today. His parents chose to keep him at home due to lockdown here. Quite understandable. But it sure made my kid sad. Now I need to explain him why his friend did not come.
My kid's birthday celebration at school is planned for Thursday. I really hope there are more kids then. He is way too excited for his birthday as well and this lockdown is making it tough.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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It's not easy on the kids, but ... they are dirty little disease factories at the best of times ...  
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That reminds me of a definition from the Devil's Dictionary:
Boy: n. A noise covered in dirt.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Go to his friends house, deliver the card?
lw@zi wrote: He is way too excited for his birthday as well and this lockdown is making it tough.
You mean the pandemic.
And rather sad than infected.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hopefully @DaveAuld you are landside this year, and can enjoy both your birthday and the festive season with your family!
Many happy returns of the day!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Bon anniversaire @DaveAuld !
And .. no beer on the platforms ? Probably safety measures...
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Thanks Griff, yes, I am landslide this year, just got back to Cyprus last Thursday, weathers pish though, no astrophotography achieved yet!
What a start to the birthday so far, one of the dogs started making a racket at 4am, thought it was the thunder, but then thought he was maybe needing out, even though the rain was torrential. They never went out much yesterday as it was tipping down. Anyway, gets downstairs and spots a present on the hall rug, then another one in the kids playroom, and another one in the piano area, and another one on the living room rug. They were progressively from solid from wtf! Spent the next however long cleaning up and put him in the cage, went back to bed. Heard him again at 7am, obviously protesting at being in the cage, let him out and went to open the back door to let them both out and proceeded to step in another one cold squishy one in bare feet that was camouflaged on the towel we had left down for drying their feet the day before.  cleaned that up and hit the shower!
Dropping the misses and kids off at the airport this morning, they are going to the UK for christmas, i'm staying in Cyprus, can't risk getting stuck with positive case and not being able to come back to Cyprus or get back to work in Qatar.
So, i'll have to have a or once I get back.
So cheers, a fun filled morning so far 
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Just as well the dogs didn't gift wrap them ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Sounds like lot of fun on your birthday
Best wishes!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Happy birthday 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Happy Birthday!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I try to do mine as early as possible: this year I started in August, but I've been known to start earlier. Generally, I'll know what I'm doing by late September, and aim to purchase in October.
Mostly, this is because her birthday is January 1st, so I need to plan either two good presents close together or to be comfortable on the couch for a while ...
And I'm glad I did this year: Herself's Christmas present was finally in my hand last Thursday which was cutting it fine ...
To be fair, this year I had a jeweler make a set of earrings to match her engagement ring (which she has had for about 40 years now) and that takes time - scheduling, stone selection, actual manufacturing, approval, changes, assay ... It all takes time which is out of your control, and a fair amount of that means getting the ring to the jeweler without Herself being involved or aware.
They are good though, and I think she'll like them.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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We do not celebrate Christmas, but as for presents... My wife had her birthday two weeks ago... Yesterday I went to a store to look some jewelry, but found nothing... Maybe next week...
(She got home-made cake and home-grown flowers already!)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If you want jewellery for your wife, find a manufacturing jeweler and talk to them about what you are looking for: they will either have it or be able to quote you for making it. "Non-manufacturing" stores tend to carry the same stuff and it's mostly over-priced cr@p. Good stuff is expensive ATM: the price of gold went silly at the start of the pandemic and is still way higher than it should be.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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She is more for those nice glass things (no gold or diamonds) and I was foolish to miss my brothers trip to Venice and ask him to bring me some nice Murano glass necklace... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Was he running down the road ?
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I let them buy things for me that are actually for them.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I googled and did not find much except ZedGraph component on this site.
so ask gurus here to get more help on this.
diligent hands rule....
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To be honest I ran into the same problem, and wound up purchasing a license to MindFusion's components because of it. Lots of features there, and great support, but getting going with it is a learning curve.
Real programmers use butterflies
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thank you for the honest info!![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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We use SciChart, it is quite good and easy to learn and the documentation is good.
It is not free, though, and certainly not open source.
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thank you! I mainly use it for stock charting.
diligent hands rule....
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What UI platform? Winforms? WPF? Asp.Net? Crystal Reports? :P
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it is WinForm...
diligent hands rule....
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